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colesantiago

5,294karma·2,469submissions·July 16, 2017
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What would you recommend for a membership system, thinking about this route since waiting for Shopify's subscription API's to mature but time isn't on my side on this.
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Is this subscription api suitable for digital only businesses that have say a membership system?. Last time I checked most of the shopify apps out there are not suited to this.
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Gumroad looks cool, but the percentages they are taking are extortionate, not sure if they are better. It would get to a point where I am giving thousands of pounds to Gumroad to lock myself in. How c…
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Have to admit, while this is good and reassuring for accepting worldwide payments, Shopify is no good on the subscriptions front and this is very poor if your subscriptions business is digital, like a…
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With one site I developed with Shopify, I have a huge cart abandonment rate because of that 3 step checkout, even with the accelerated checkouts like Apple/Google Pay. A single page modal checkou…
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*API But not natively within Shopify's UI, You have to use 3rd party apps have to make use of this API. For merchants this is useless to them if they don't want to use a 3rd party app for th…
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Shopify is an extremely restrictive platform for merchants and developers, I urge people not to use it if they wish to build on top of it. There isn't ways to have a custom checkout (one page) wi…
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> In this case Github's response was quite mature; in Gab's case, it wasn't. This is irrelevant. There is no excuse for this, especially if you are a billion dollar company.
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push notifications and state management across devices is a very hard problem, try doing this yourself. I am glad that something like magicbell exists.
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afterwards you are locked into Firebase.
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Even in cases for regional replication? Because this is the use case I am looking for, something like Spanner but cheaper.
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Too bad they raised money from VCs, giving them control over the direction of this search engine, now they're on a treadmill. Going to be acquired by Apple sooner or later for their search engine…
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Is there a situation where I SHOULDN'T use Postgres?
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> ...The kernel may panic... That looks very serious, doesn't look stable or ready..
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> Signal client OK. > for Emacs Uh, is it possible to view images from Signal in Emacs? If not... ...Why?
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How has Docker been for you, I am also considering running Windows on it or maybe Linux possibly with near native performance. Is this good to go?
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Perhaps 'Facebook News' alternative rather than Facebook itself? Unless you consider getting your friends cousins updates, and liking their posts through an RSS feed as a Facebook alternativ…
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this is HUGE, how can I invest in your NFT startup?!?
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is there any reason why this isn't yet another hyped up get rich quick scheme just like ICOs? because this 'NFT' thing reminds me of when ICO's where the biggest thing on the plane…
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Well tweets don't really kill you though do they? They are not directed at anyone, at most it is vented frustration from the oppressed that is trans people.
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This is HUGE, an absolute game changer in the cross platform space and in competing with electron, my congrats to the flutter team on this release. I anyone using Flutter in production currently?
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Who said this was 'OK'? Maybe don't deny the existence of people and perhaps you won't get those responses?
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> What does that have to do with anything? It's a reminder, more to the point, is it a slur though? If you are fine with denying someone's existence I am sure you can take whatever is com…
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Lunacy for recognising trans women as women and fighting against people that actively deny trans people's existence? I'll take that any day.
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You're right when it comes to calls to violence, but I would prefer #DieT*rfs or #T*rfsMustDie instead. At least then freedom of speech is preserved and are is no calls for violence. > Only by…
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